597. Joh. xii, 41. These things said Efaias, when he* Saw his Glory, and spake of him. * The Glory which Efaias saw, Efai. vi, 1, is plainly the Glory of God the Father: From whence the Followers of Sabellius conclude, because St John here calls it the Glory of Christ, that therefore the Father and the Son are One and the Same Individual Being or Person. But the True Meaning is, that when Efaias saw the Glory of God the Father revealing to him the Coming of Christ, he then saw the Glory of Him, who was to come in the Glory of his Father, Mat. xvi, 27. Further, it is the constant Doctrine of all the Primitive Writers of the Church, that every Appearance of God the Father, in the old Testament, was Christ appearing in the Person of the Father, [ἐν μορφή Θες,] in the Form of God, as being the Image of the invisible God, Col. i, 15; of Him, whom no man hath seen at any time, Joh. i, 18; of Him whom no man hath seen nor can see, 1 Tim. vi, 16. This Word of God, ̓Αναλαμβάνων τὸ πρό(faith Theophilus An- σωπον 7 πατρὸς κς κυρίε tiochenus,) taking upon ἢ ὅλων, ὅτα παρεγίνετο himself the Person of the Father and Lord of all εἰς ἢ αθράδεισον ἐν ποςthings, came into Para- τώπῳ το θες, ής ὡμίλει dife, and talked with A- τῷ ̓Αδάμ. Ad Autol. lib. 2. dam, in the Perfon of God. And Irenæus: The Καὶ ἀυλὸς ἢ ὁ λόγα το Word of God (faith he) θεῖ τοῖς μὲὶ πρὸ Μωυσέως did Himself, in a divine παβιάρχαις, κτι τὸ θεϊκὸν and glorious Manner, Converse with the Patri- ἢ ἐνδοξον, ὡμίλει τοῖς ἢ archs before Moses; and ἐν τῷ νόμω &c. Lib. III, with those under the Law Cap. II. &c. And again: The Scri Infeminatus est ubique in 1 SOV pture (faith he) is full of Scripturis Filius Dei, alithe Son of God's appea- quando quidem cum Abraring, Sometimes to talk ham loquens, cum eodem coand eat with Abraham, mesurus;aliquando cum Noë, at other times to instruct dans ei mensuras; aliquanNoah about the Measures do autem quærens Adam; of the Ark, at another aliquando autem Sodomitis inducens judicium; & rursus cùm videtur, & in viam dirigit Jacob; & de rubo loquitur cum Moyse. Lib. time to seek Adam, at And Justin Martyr. See NNo 616. possible, that the God which Filius est, qui ab initio judicavit, turrim fuperbiffimam elidens, linguasque disperdens, orbem totum aquarum violentiâ puniens, pluens super Sodomam & Gomorrham ignem & fulphurem, Dominus a Domino; Deus in terris cum hominibus conversari alius non potuit, quam Sermo, qui Caro erat futurus. Adv.Prax.cap. 16. & Earth, could be any other than that Word, which was to be made Flesp. H 4 And And again: We profess (lays he) that Christ always acted in the Name of God his Father; that it was He, who conversed upon Earth from the Beginning; that it was He, who appeared to the Patriarchs and Prophets: - that the Father himself was never seen by Any but that in His Name and by His Authority, the Son of God, which appeared, was God. And Cyprian, in his second Book of Testimonies against the Jews, ch. 5 & 6; Which fee at large. And Athanafius: In Καὶ ἐν τῷ Ἰωὴλ ἐκπρο Foel (lays he) He speaks σώπς παβός λέγει, Ἐκχεῶ ἀπὸ τὸ πνεύματός με. De in the Person of the Father, saying, I will pour out of my Spirit. humana nat. fufcept. And Cyril of Jerufalem, speaking of this very pafsage in Efaias, where he saw God fitting upon the Throne of his glory: The Father (faith he) hath no man seen at any Time; but He which then appeared to the Prophet, was the Son. Τὸν πατέρα μεν γδ ἐδεὶς ἑώρακε πώποτε. ὁ τις πορρήτη τότε φανείς, ψὸς ἦν. Catech. 14. Ubicunque non merum Angelum, sed ipfum Deum apparuiffe liquet; ibi non Patrem, fed Filium intelligendum effe, primævæ Antiquitatis confentiens judici unanimous opinion of all um religiosè sequentes, con stanter primitive Antiquity, we stanter affirmamus. Defens. I Thus when 'tis said of Moses and the seventy Elders, Exod. xxiv, 10, that they saw the God of Ifrael, and that there was under bis Feet as it were a pavedswark, &c. it must be understood that they saw, not the Invisible Father, but the Son appearing in the Name and Person of the Father. All which, is much confirmed by St Stephen's Expreffion, Acts vii, 30, 32, that the ANGEL of the Lord [viz. the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of bis Prefence, in whom the Name of God was, and by whom God always speaks, upon which account he is stiled ὁ λόγα 7 θες the Word of God, appeared to Moses in the Wilderness in a flame of Fire in a Bush; Jaying, I AM the God of thy Fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Ifaac, and the God of Jacob. See No 359, 616, 69, 916. 598. Joh. xii, 45. He that feeth me, seeth him that fent me. See N° 60০. 599. xiii, 11. For he knew who should be tray him. 600. こ xiv; 7, 8, 9, 10, 11. If ye had known me, ye † should have known my Father also; and from henceforth ye know him, and have * seen him Philip faith unto him; Lord, shew us the Father, and it fufficeth us. Jefus faith unto him; Have I been so long time time with you, and yet haft thou not known Me, Philip? He that hath * seen me, hath seen the Father; and how sayst thou then, Shew us the Father. Believest thou not, that † I am in the Father, and the Father in Me? The Words that I speak unto you, I speak not of myself; but the Father that dwelleth in me, He doth the Works. Believe me, that † I am in the Father, and the Father in Me. + If ye had known Me, ye should have known my Father also.] The Meaning of This, is explained, Mat, xi, 27, Neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Sen will REVEAL him: And Joh. i, 18, No Man hath seen God at any time; the only-begotten Son, which is in the Bosom of the Father, he hath DECLARED bim: And 1 Joh. ii, 23, Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father, but he that acknowledgeth the Son, hath the Father also: And Joh. xii; 44, 45, He that believeth en Me, believeth not on me, but on him that sent me; and he that seeth me, seeth him that fent me. The Will of the Father, is as perfectly made known by the Son, as if they Both were but One and the same Person. The Words that I speak unto you, (faith our Saviour, ver. 10th of this Chapter,) I speak not of my self; but the Father thas dwelleth in me, He doth the Works. See ٢٢٢٠ When our Lord de : clares (says a very antient Writer of the Church,) that if ye had known Me, ye should have known my Father $ Quod enim dixit Dominus, Si me cognoviftis, & patrem meum cognoviftis, & amodo noftis illum, et vidistis illum; non fic dixerat, ut se Patrem vellet intelligi; fed |